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Life threatening nontraumatic tension gastrothorax

Tension gastrothorax is a rare condition, which poses a diagnostic dilemma and can be mistaken for a tension pneumothorax. Awareness of the risk factors, clinical presentation, and radiology findings of tension gastrothorax can help with the prompt identification and successful management of this li...

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Autores principales: El Hajj, Ihab I., McCabe, Marshall, Ceppa, DuyKhanh P., Fridell, Jonathan A., Sherman, Stuart
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5930186/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29744098
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1468
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description Tension gastrothorax is a rare condition, which poses a diagnostic dilemma and can be mistaken for a tension pneumothorax. Awareness of the risk factors, clinical presentation, and radiology findings of tension gastrothorax can help with the prompt identification and successful management of this life‐threatening condition.
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spelling pubmed-59301862018-05-09 Life threatening nontraumatic tension gastrothorax El Hajj, Ihab I. McCabe, Marshall Ceppa, DuyKhanh P. Fridell, Jonathan A. Sherman, Stuart Clin Case Rep Clinical Images Tension gastrothorax is a rare condition, which poses a diagnostic dilemma and can be mistaken for a tension pneumothorax. Awareness of the risk factors, clinical presentation, and radiology findings of tension gastrothorax can help with the prompt identification and successful management of this life‐threatening condition. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2018-03-08 /pmc/articles/PMC5930186/ /pubmed/29744098 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1468 Text en © 2018 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5930186/
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